writing, technology and teens

This article is very modern and about mostly this modern generation of technology. “93% of teens say they write for their own pleasure” that basically means the social networks, texting, and other social communication with family and friends or “followers”. Although teens write almost all day 60% of teens do not think of these electronic texts as “writing.”  Parents also believe that their children write way more than they did at that age and some parents are not educated enough to read or write. Technology is great and is very helpful in this modern world but there is a much bigger problem  that the fear that  teenagers and younger generation will not be able to use or learn formal writing because of the electronic education. “A considerable number of educators and children’s advocates worry that James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was right when he recently suggested that young Americans’ electronic communication might be damaging “the basic unit of human thought – the sentence.” They are worried that the quality of writing by teenagers is being demeaned by their social communication using electronics that basically corrects almost to anything from spelling, punctuation, grammar and most importantly its shortcuts. It changes the known basic formal writing, it makes it very easy to the point that you can speak and the computer will write. There is not real formal writing were a person has to write words directly from the mind with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. People in the future will not know how to spell or write correctly without using any electronic devices to correct the mistakes. People will not think and use their mind more and be heavy thinkers which leads to major education problems. Informal writing will be much used by the young generation due to spending large amounts of time writing incorrect language without even realizing it. Teenagers still believe that the writing instructions they receive in school could be improved by basically spending more time writing in class. A lot of parents say that good writing is an essential skill for later success in life. I have also experienced many parents that are educated talking to their kids and advising them to write formal write their texting which will strengthen their writing as they grow and can use it in school and in life because they are used to it which becomes easy.